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Scenarios to jolt us awake
By Paul Monk
We live in a world in which massive nuclear arsenals and secret arsenals of biological and chemical weapons exist and represent a deeply insidious danger to us all. Yet most of us live oblivious to either the scale or nature of those dangers.
Jacobsen shows just how dangerous they are – starting with straightforward scenarios of the rogue use of nuclear missiles, then exploring the leak from a Russian BSL-4 biosecurity lab in Siberia of a gain-of-function engineered pneumonic plague bacillus, and then showing in dramatic detail what consequences follow.
"... it is an opportunity to urge that you read this book ... and then become serious about comprehending the cliff’s edge existence we all now live in the name of nuclear deterrence, especially as global order, economic and geopolitical, deteriorates.
Paul Monk
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